Sistem keamanan darurat Jepang, saat terjadi tsunami, tampak bekerja dengan bagus memberi peringatan kepada rakyatnya. Namun, tampaknya sistem peringatan dini itu masih kalah cepat dengan peringatan yang disampaikan oleh kelompok ikan oar (oarfish).
Tanda-tanda bencana itu, sepertinya telah dirasakan seminggu sebelum kejadian oleh sekelompok oarfish. Kawanan ikan itu ditemukan terdampar di pantai Jepang, seminggu sebelum tsunami menyapu kawasan pantai timur Jepang.
Kejadian itu, dituliskan oleh lamandailyonigiri.com. Laman itu menuliskan, seminggu sebelum terjadinya gempa besar dan tsunami itu, ditemukan banyak oarfish yang tersapu di daratan pantai Jepang dan sebagian tersangkut di jaring nelayan. Sebelumnya, laman The Telegraph juga pernah memuat artikel tentang oarfish yang muncul ke permukaan sebelum terjadi gempa besar di Cili dan Haiti pada 2010 silam.
Yang menarik, oarfish ini diduga bisa mendeteksi terjadinya gempa besar. Mengapa demikian?
Oarfish biasanya tinggal di laut dengan kedalaman 1 km (lebih dari 3.000 kaki). Jenis ikan ini sangat jarang ditemukan hidup di laut dengan kedalaman kurang dari 200 meter dari permukaan laut. Ikan ini bisa tumbuh dengan panjang lebih kurang 17 meter (56 kaki).
Menurut kebiasaan kuno Jepang, ikan ini berenang ke permukaan dan pantai sebagai pertanda datangnya gempa bumi.
Selain itu, juga terdapat teori ilmiah yang mengatakan binatang lebih sensitif bergerak ke permukaan dari pada manusia.
Beberapa ilmuan percaya ikan yang hidup di laut dalam sangat sensitif terhadap gerakan bumi dan biasanya selalu mendahului terjadinya gempa bumi. Meski demikian, kebanyakan ahli gempa tidak melihat hubungan ilmiah antara fenomena oarfish dengan gempa bumi.
Tapi, apakah mungkin ikan-ikan itu mengetahui apa yang terjadi di bawah permukaan? Pada zaman kuno, ketika belum memiliki peralatan yang canggih, orang-orang Jepang mempercayai beberapa ikan, terutama lele, sebagai pertanda akan terjadinya bencana gempa.
Large tsunami struck the east coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 earlier. The disaster happened after a massive earthquake with a strength of 8.9 on the Richter Scale.
Japan's emergency safety systems, when the tsunami hit, seemed to work well to give a warning to its people. However, it seems that an early warning system was still less quickly with warnings delivered by the group of fish OAR (oarfish).
The signs of the disaster, seemed to have felt a week before the incident by a group of oarfish. Swarm of fish were found stranded on the coasts of Japan, a week before the tsunami swept the east coast of Japan.
Incident, written by dailyonigiri.com pages. The page was written, a week before the big quake and tsunami, which swept oarfish found many on the mainland coast of Japan and partly entangled in fishing nets. Previously, the pages of The Telegraph also ran an article about oarfish who come to the surface before the big quake in Chile and Haiti in 2010 ago.
Interestingly, this oarfish thought to be able to detect the occurrence of large earthquakes. Why is that?
Oarfish normally live in the sea with a depth of 1 km (more than 3,000 feet). This extremely rare species of fish found alive at sea with a depth of less than 200 meters above sea level. This fish can grow to the length approximately 17 meters (56 feet).
According to the ancient customs of Japan, these fish swim to the surface and the beach as a harbinger of the coming earthquake.
In addition, there is also a scientific theory which says the animals are more sensitive to move to the surface than in humans.
Some scientists believe the fish that live in the deep ocean is very sensitive to movement of the earth and usually always precede the occurrence of earthquakes.Nevertheless, most seismologists do not see the scientific connection between the phenomenon oarfish with earthquakes.
But, whether it is possible the fish know what is happening beneath the surface? In ancient times, when not yet have the sophisticated equipment, the Japanese people believe in some fish, especially catfish, as a sign of impending disaster.